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Lintner: 2d Rept. Ins. N. Y., 1885, pp. 102-110, figs. 18-21 (general account). 



6th Rept. do., 1890, p. 190 (mite associated with it); in Count. Gent., 



lviii, 1893, pp. 188, 189 (general notice). 

 Webster: Ins. Affect. Corn (in Ind. Agr. Rept. for 1885), 1886, p. 24, pi. 5, f. 3, 



pi. 6, fig. 2, (brief general notice); in Insect Life, i, 1889, p. 354 



(injurious in Australia to stored grain). 

 Hunt: in Miss. Ess. Econom. Entomol., 1886, pp. 89, 90 (bibliography). 

 Riley-Howard: in Insect Life, iii, 1891, p. 339 (reply to inquiry from Va.); 



id., iv, 1892, p. 207 (remedy for, in granary), p. 283 (in Florida), p. 293 



(in Miss., reference), p. 296 (in India, reference). 

 Weed: Bull. 17 Miss. Agr. Exp. St., 1891, pp. 3-6, figs. 1-3 (general notice). 

 Smith: in Ann. Rept. N. Jer. Agr. Exp. St., 1891, pp. 347, 405-408, f. 22 



(general account with [remedies); List Lepidop. Bor. Amer., 1891, p. 



100, no. 5335. 



Beckwith: Bull. 12 Del. Agr. Exp. St., 1891, p. 14 (brief notice^; Bull. 21 do., 



1893, pp. 10, 11, figs. 6, 7 (brief notice). 

 Doran: Bull. 16 Md. Agr. Exp. St., 1892, pp. 437-441 (general account). 

 Kellogg: in Insect Life, v, 1892, p. 116 (in two years' stored grain in Kansas); 



Com. Inj. Ins. Kans., 1893, pp. 50-52, f. 24 (description and remedies). 

 Howard: in Insect Life, v, 1893, pp. 325-328 (history, preventives, remedies, 



etc.). 



Slingerland: in Rur. N. York., Hi, 1893, p. 493 (remedies); in do., liii, 1894, p. 



425 (at World's Fair). 

 Bruner: in Ann. Rept. Nebr. Agr. Exp. St. for 1893, pp. 408-410, f. 53 (habits, 



etc., from Riley). 

 Riley: in Insect Life, vi, 1894, pp. 216, 222 (at World's Fair). 

 Fletcher: in Prairie Farmer for July 7, 1894, Ixvi, p. 9 (not abundant or 



destructive in Canada). 

 Chittenden: in Yearbook U. S. Dept. Agricul. for 1894, 1895, pp. 281-283, figs. 



44, 45 (history, injury to grain, life-history, remedies). 

 Comstocks: Manual Stud. Ins., 1895, p. 258 (brief notice). 



Meyrick: Handbook British Lepidop., 1895, p. 571 (description and 

 distribution). 



The letter given below, received from one of the southern counties 

 of Pennsylvania, illustrates forcibly the great injury that may be 

 caused to wheat between its reaping and November threshing — at 

 least one-half of its flour product — by the larva of the Angoumois 

 moth, or the "fly- weevil" of the southern wheat belt, during the larval 

 growth of a single brood. 



Eds. Country Gentleman. — I have just returned from Montgom- 

 ery county, Pa , where I learned of a new (at least to me) enemy to 

 wheat. It is a small worm that eats the grain after harvest, just as 

 the bean-weevil develops in the bean, and then feeds upon it. During 

 harvest and when seed wheat was threshed in September, the wheat 

 was apparently all right. But in November, while threshing, as the 



eaves were handed out of the mow, thousands of small white millers 

 re seen coming out of the sheaves and flying confusedly about in 



